A human in his curiosity and quest to discover the unknown appeared in the territory of present-day Masuria, shortly after the glacier gave way. Who was the first “Masuria” Adam?
We learn the details of the lives of the earliest peoples thanks to archaeologists, who, due to the lack of grounds for determining their ethnicity, they refer to them as archaeological cultures: Yemeni, funnel , cord cups, etc. The first people in Masuria came from the circle of people of the late Stone Age (Paleolithic). Around the 6th century BC, western Baltics came from the east. It is the people from which the later Galinds can be derived, followed by the Yotvingians and the Pollexians (distinguished sometimes as residents of the southern ends of Yotvingia, living in the early Middle Ages in the valley of the Elk River).
The Baltic world was brought to an end by the Teutonic conquest of Yotvingia in 1283. Existing residents with new settlers from Polish, Rus and Germany, they were the part of the population of the Teutonic State and later of the Duchy and the Prussian Kingdom. Between 1444 and 1454 The Teutonic Fathers founded Jucha (later called the Old One) and in 1473 the New Jucha. The names of the village came from jucha – animal blood, which was to run down from the great boulder which in pre-Christian times was to act as a pagan sacrificial altar. It was even supposed to attract curious pilgrims, due to which the church was created. The village (Nowa Jucha) took on the character of a large Masurian village with a triangular marketplace with three inns. They even sang, “Once [from] Juch’s jermark she wanted a gift from him.” In 1938 horse and cattle fairs were held on March 17 and September 15. The market day was Friday.
In 1929 Stare Jucha, Nowa Jucha and the Jucha Estate (Alt Jucha, Neu Jucha, Adlig Jucha) were combined into one Municipality of Jucha. Its name was changed to Fliessdorf in 1938. In 1945 the Slavic sound was restored – the first Polish settlers came to Jusze. In 1946 the official name was changed to Stare Juchy.